First Ever Stamping Attempt

So, this one is highly experimental, as I have never used this technique before, but I had a lot of fun trying it out, and am happy with how it turned out on a least a couple of the nails! I spent a long time looking through all the plates, I have BM01 - BM21, I think a lot of the designs are really cute, which is great at such a low price.

I decided to try out BM19 the main reason I chose this plate was because I thought that the dots looked easy, but in the end I tried out all 6 of the designs.

Here is the plate BM19 -

It took me a while before I figured out how to get the blue plastic off, but once I worked out how to do it, it was very satisfying for some reason! This is the plate without the plastic -

Shiny! :)
So yeah, I pretty much just tried out each of the designs. I used No7 Stay Perfect in Betty Blues, over No7 Stay Perfect in Hot To Trot, and this is how each hand turned out -

As you can see most of my nails are too long for these little designs, and my main problems arose from trying to get the designs onto the empty parts of my nail left from the designs being too short (or my nails too long!) When a couple of my nails break I do generally cut them all off, so I am going to save these full nail designs for when my nails are shorter. I really liked the playing card design, and the circles, I actually liked all of these designs, just a shame I found it so difficult to line them up to cover the tips of  my nails.

I didn't put a topcoat on these, as I literally only wore them for a few hours like this, was just playing around to see what I could do really :) Am now deciding which of the little motifs to try next, I have got as far as deciding to use plate BM01 but that's as far as I've got, will blog you tomorrow to show you what I decided on :)

Cheerio for now, S x